Academic Sessions IMST 2008
15 May to 18 May 2008
The Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Memphis



Academic Sessions



All sessions will be of two-hour duration and will feature 4-6 talks.

Time allocation to individual talks in a session will be decided by the session chair(s).

The following represents only a partial list of sessions to be organized during the conference. Abstracts should be submitted online by going to the website.
 
Advances in Survival Analysis

Chair: Shesh Rai
Department of Biostatistics
University of Louiseville
Louiseville, KY, USA
Email: Shesh.rai@louiseville.edu
 
 
 
Analysis of Clustered Discrete and Continuous outcomes

Chair: E.O. George
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: eogeorge@memphis.edu
   
Banach Space Theory and Applications

Chairs: Anna Kaminska & Pei Kee Lin
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: kaminska@memphis.edu
Email: pklin@memphis.edu
 
 
 
Bayesian Statistics and Related Topics

Chair: Sudip Bose
Department of Statistics
The George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
Email: sudip@gwu.edu
   
Bioinformatics

Chair: Sunil Mathur
Department of Mathematics
University of Mississippi
University, MS, USA
Email: skmathur@olemiss.edu
 
 
 
Coding and Combinatorics

Chair: Stefan Dodunekov
Institute of Mathematics & Informatics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Email: stememdo@hotmail.com
 
Design and Analysis of Experiments

Chair: Manohar Aggarwal
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: maggarwl@memphis.edu
 
 
 
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

Chairs: Fernanda Botelho &Thomas Hagen
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email:mbotelho@memphis.edu
Email: thagen@memphs.edu
 
Ergodic Theory

Chairs: James T. Campbell and Randall McCutcheon
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: jcampbll@memphis.edu
Email: rmcctchn@memphis.edu
 
 
 
Graph Theory and Cominatorics

Chairs: P. Balister & V. Nikiforov
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: pbalistr@memphis.edu
Email: vnikifrv@memphis.edu
 
Interdisciplinary Research Projects for Undergraduates

Co-Chairs:
Jan Rychtar
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC, USA
Email: j_rychta@uncg.edu

Petr Girg
University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Email: pgirg@kma.zcu.cz
 
 
 
Linear Statistical Inference

Chairs: Joćo Tiago Mexia
University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
Email: jtm@fct.unl.pt
 
Microsimulation in Public Policy and Health

Chair: Anil Gupta
Microsimulation Modelling and Data Analysis Division
Applied Research and Analysis Directorate
Health Policy Branch
Health Canada
Ottawa, Canada

Email: Anil Gupta
Alt. Email: microsimulation@aol.com
 
 
 
Number Theory & Cryptography: Past, Present, and Future

Chair: Tsz Ho Chan
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: tchan@memphis.edu
 
Partial Differential Equations in Engineering and Science

Chairs: Giesele Goldstein & Jerry Goldstein
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: ggoldste@memphis.edu
Email: jgoldste@memphis.edu
 
 
 
Recent Developments in Random Number Generation and MCMC Methods

Chair: Lih-Yuan Deng
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: lihdeng@memphis.edu
 
Sampling Theory and Methodology

Chair: Sat Gupta
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC, USA
Email: sngupta@uncg.edu
 
 
 
Search Theory

Chair: G. O. H. Katona
Renyi Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Email: ohkatona@renyi.hu
 
Statistical and Stochastic Methods for Financial Mathematics

Chair: Manuel L. Esquivel
New University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
Email: mle@fct.unl.pt
 
 
 
Stochastic Models of Cancer Development and Applications

Chair: W.Y.Tan
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
Email: waitan@memphis.edu